Editing Forsyth County, Georgia (section)

====Lynching and other violence driving non-white people from the county====
After two different incidents in September 1912, in which black men were alleged to have assaulted white women, tensions rose in the county.
{{main|1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia}}

In the first case, a woman claimed she awoke to find two black men in her bedroom. A black preacher was later assaulted by whites for making disparaging comments about the victim. The sheriff gained support from the governor, who sent more than 20 National Guard troops to keep peace. The suspects were never tried, for lack of evidence. In the second case, a white woman was attacked and raped, allegedly by black men; she later died of her injuries. A [[Lynching in the United States|lynch mob]] stormed the Cumming county jail and dragged out one of the suspects, Rob Edwards. They shot him and hung his body in the town square. At trial in early October, two black youths under the age of 18 were quickly convicted by an [[all-white jury]]; they were executed by hanging later that month.

Afterward, whites harassed and intimidated blacks in Forsyth and neighboring counties. Within weeks, they forced most of the blacks to leave the region in fear of their lives, losing land and personal property that was never recovered.

{{Blockquote|Almost every single one of Forsyth's 1,098 African Americans — prosperous and poor, literate and unlettered — was driven out of the county. It took only a few weeks. Marauding residents wielded guns, sticks of dynamite, bottles of kerosene. Then they stole everything, from farmland to tombstones.

Forsyth County remained white right through the 20th century. A black man or woman couldn't so much as drive through without being run out.... During the 1950s and '60s, there were no "colored" water fountains in the courthouse or "whites only" diners in the county seat, Cumming; there was no black population to segregate.<ref name="Blood">{{Cite news |last=Senior |first=Jennifer |date=September 14, 2016 |title=Review: 'Blood at the Root,' a Tale of Racial Cleansing Close to Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/books/review-blood-at-the-root-a-tale-of-racial-cleansing-close-to-home.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=June 6, 2018 |archive-date=February 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211133446/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/books/review-blood-at-the-root-a-tale-of-racial-cleansing-close-to-home.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

By 1987, the county was "all white".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=January 18, 1987 |title=White Protestors Disrupt 'Walk for Brotherhood' in Georgia Town |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/18/us/white-protestors-disrupt-walk-for-brotherhood-in-georgia-town.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=June 6, 2018 |archive-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406154304/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/18/us/white-protestors-disrupt-walk-for-brotherhood-in-georgia-town.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1997, African Americans numbered just 39 in a population of 75,739.<ref name="Blood" />